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Web API quota updates for Development Mode

Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...

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Refresh token expiration: discussion thread

Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...

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Elgato Stream Deck plugin not working with WIFI?

Hi there!I'm using the Streamdeck Spotify plugin (from Bar Raiders) to control my music. I recently found out that my internet, Starlink, keeps preventing me from allow it to work, I'm thinking spotify's API maaay have something to do with it? Like i...

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Hi there! I'm using the Streamdeck Spotify plugin (from Bar Raiders) to control my music. I recently found out that my internet, Starlink, keeps preventing me from allow it to work, I'm thinking s...

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Is it possible to access a basic API through the local client

From what I remember you could get a basic local api client setup in C#, but from what I can see it's not possible anymore. I don't want to peg Spotify endpoints every second just to get the currently playing song when said song is played locally. An...

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From what I remember you could get a basic local api client setup in C#, but from what I can see it's not possible anymore.   I don't want to peg Spotify endpoints every second just to get the...

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Connecting Spotify to a social media

Greetings, we are a young team of developers who are developing a social network. We would like to implement in our social network the functionality of integrating a user page with a spotify account and to display information about the music being li...

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Greetings, we are a young team of developers who are developing a social network. We would like to implement in our social network the functionality of integrating a user page with a spotify account ...

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api, preview link

PlanFreeDevice(all)Operating System(all) My Question or IssueHello, could you please explain why some tracks do not have a preview playback link

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  Plan Free Device (all) Operating System (all)   My Question or Issue Hello, could you please explain why some tracks do not have a preview playback link

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API 403: "Player command failed: Premium required" on Premium Account

PlanPremium IndividualCountryUnited KingdomDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10, Linux. My Question or Issue Interacting with the API at the /v1/me/player/next endpoint gives an error code 403: {"error" : {"status" : 403,"message" : "Player com...

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Plan Premium Individual Country United Kingdom Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10, Linux.   My Question or Issue   Interacting with the API at the /v1/me/player/next e...

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Strava commercial intergation

Hi, According to Developer Policy (IV. Streaming and Commercial Use):Commercial use restrictions. Except for the limited commercial uses for Non-Streaming SDAs (set out below) commercial uses are not permitted for SDAs. That point in general closes t...

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Hi,   According to Developer Policy (IV. Streaming and Commercial Use): Commercial use restrictions. Except for the limited commercial uses for Non-Streaming SDAs (set out below) commercial u...

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Seeking Assistance: Receiving 401 Error when Creating a Playlist on Spotify

Hello, I am reaching out to seek assistance regarding an issue I've been facing while attempting to create a playlist on Spotify. Unfortunately, I keep encountering a persistent 401 error, which indicates an authentication or authorization problem.He...

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Hello,  I am reaching out to seek assistance regarding an issue I've been facing while attempting to create a playlist on Spotify. Unfortunately, I keep encountering a persistent 401 error, whi...

Ximzend

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Design Guidelines Cropping

Hello, to achieve the extended quota mode, you have to follow the design guidelines as documented here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/designYou cannot crop any album artwork. However I have seen on multiple website the cropping of artis...

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Hello, to achieve the extended quota mode, you have to follow the design guidelines as documented here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/design You cannot crop any album artwork. Howeve...

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Unity SDK for Android & iOS

Hello, Can we get Unity SDK for Android & iOS platforms? Regards,Sankar Ganesh. R

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Hello,         Can we get Unity SDK for Android & iOS platforms?   Regards, Sankar Ganesh. R

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Payment Spotify API

Hi there. I would like to integrate the Spotify API into my application, but I couldn't find clear payment terms. I found information that using the Spotify API is free, but do you know if there are any limitations to the free usage of the API?I want...

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Hi there. I would like to integrate the Spotify API into my application, but I couldn't find clear payment terms. I found information that using the Spotify API is free, but do you know if there are ...

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Solved!! Token generated using Client Credentials workflow does not work for /me

Hey,I used the client credential authorization workflow and successfully generated a access token. I am able to retrieve information regarding user accounts and playlists when using /users in the URL. However, when I use the /me to get my own playlis...

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Hey, I used the client credential authorization workflow and successfully generated a access token. I am able to retrieve information regarding user accounts and playlists when using /users in the U...

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Looking for a programmer that knows how to interact with Spotify Friend Activity

I'm Looking for a programmer that knows how to interact with Spotify Friend Activity.I want to be able to programmatically access the Friend Activity so I can automatically play the songs my friends are playing or worst case, be able to save the info...

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I'm Looking for a programmer that knows how to interact with Spotify Friend Activity. I want to be able to programmatically access the Friend Activity so I can automatically play the songs my friend...

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Quota Extension Update

Country: US Hello Spotify team, I have put in a request for an extension quota for 2 apps -App 1 - Playlist Genius AI (clientid - 3fa72a7c144d45918384ee91e36f0341) andApp 2 - Playlist Genius AI Pro (client id 5701724ebd9646dfbd2de17f58f2e9a1). Both t...

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  Country: US   Hello Spotify team,   I have put in a request for an extension quota for 2 apps - App 1 - Playlist Genius AI (clientid - 3fa72a7c144d45918384ee91e36f0341) and Ap...

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Web Playback SDK - How to get mapping from old to new trackId

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceLenovo Thinkpad, Chrome 114Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or Issue Hey there, We ran into the following issue when using the Web Playback SDK.When requesting playback with the trackID "0RGl4d2uebT43Usk4KRbMq" th...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Lenovo Thinkpad, Chrome 114 Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue   Hey there,   We ran into the following issue when usin...

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Spotify iframe in site: Podcast title cut off - illegible

PlanFree CountryBrazil DeviceAll My Question or IssueWhen using the Spotify iframe in my website sidebar, the title of the episode of the podcast appears cut off, is there a way to show more characters? it is very confusing to undestand the title in ...

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Plan Free   Country Brazil   Device All   My Question or Issue When using the Spotify iframe in my website sidebar, the title of the episode of the podcast appears cut off, i...

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Waiting for Web API commands with side-effects to complete

Hi, using the Web API, I noticed that requests to commands with side effects end earlier than the related changes appear. For example, if we call the endpoint Get the User's Queue immediately after Add Item to Playback Queue, we'll sometimes get the ...

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Hi,   using the Web API, I noticed that requests to commands with side effects end earlier than the related changes appear. For example, if we call the endpoint Get the User's Queue ...

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Solved!! Iframe API player background color

Is there a way to set the player color to black with iFrame API? If we embed manually, there is the option to use the black background color when creating the embed code. It adds &theme=0 to the podcast URL. I am not finding a way to achieve the same...

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Is there a way to set the player color to black with iFrame API? If we embed manually, there is the option to use the black background color when creating the embed code. It adds &theme=0 to the ...

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Getting around link attribution restriction? - Developers

I’m curious how to work around the design guideline that has attributed links. I made a receipt printer that prints out your listening history and got flagged for not attributing links to the song, but I can’t really attach a link to a printed out pa...

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I’m curious how to work around the design guideline that has attributed links. I made a receipt printer that prints out your listening history and got flagged for not attributing links to the song, b...

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Licensing for Publishing a Dataset Based on Spotify's Information

For my college project, I have collected audio features and information (song title, artist) of the song from Spotify API. Based on this data, I have created a dataset that I would like to publish.However, I am unsure about the licensing requirements...

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For my college project, I have  collected audio features and information (song title, artist) of the song  from Spotify API. Based on this data, I have created a dataset that I would like t...

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Artist ID Endpoint Returns Different ID Than Passed

When accessing the https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/71qeeXflQetBnl2rvpfgiH endpoint I expect to get back an object containing the id of the spotify artist that I passed. However, this particular id 71qeeXflQetBnl2rvpfgiH returns an object with the ...

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<html> When accessing the https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/71qeeXflQetBnl2rvpfgiH endpoint I expect to get back an object containing the id of the spotify artist that I passed. How...

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